HUM-AN ORCHESTRA

Mauricio Kagel’s "Zwei Mann Orchestra" visualises the upheavals of the Industrial Revolution, which has left us in a world designed by and for the white male. The complex process of machines is externalised into a giant multi-layered sculpture made of ropes, wires and pulleys.
Opera Lab Berlin brings Mauricio Kagel’s "Zwei Mann Orchestra" piece into the 21st century and beyond, to a future where the Digital Revolution is completed, and humanity has to seek to overcome bias and prejudices that echo from the past.
Wires become wireless connections, ropes become digital networks, the transfer of energy becomes transfer of information and - and this is truly revolutionary - humans are no longer in a mere external controlling function, but integrated seamlessly into the digital machine. The processes are internalised. Human interactions become data transfer. Bodies are extended into the digital. Clouds of soot become an omnipotent digital cloud. Join us on our journey up and beyond, into the uncertain.

www.opera-lab-berlin.com

• Samuel Chalela Puccini: »VIDEO«
• Max Rux: »LICHTDESIGN & TECHNISCHE LEITUNG«
• Simon Walker: »LIVE ELECTRONIC DESIGN«
• tadklimp: »SOUND DESIGN«
• Ayse Alacakaptan + Luis Hartmann: »KAMERA (VIDEO)«
• Martin Rink: »MASKE«
• Oliver Kunde + Martin Rink: »MASKE (VIDEO)«
• Sophie Pischel: »KOMMUNIKATIONSDESIGN«
• Réka Szabó: »PRODUKTIONSLEITUNG«
• Gina May Walter + Francesca Verga + Ruben Nsue + tadklimp + Evan Gardner: »FASSUNG«

Opera Lab Berlin

Frauke Aulbert, GESANG
Alba Gentili-Tedeschi, KLAVIER
Amanda Bailey, VIOLA
Davis West, VIOLINE
Guilherme Rodrigues, CELLO
Franka Herwig, AKKORDEON
Francesca Verga, SYNTHESIZER, MUSIKALISCHE LEITUNG
Ruben Nsue, TANZ, CHOREOGRAPHIE
Mauricio Kagel, KOMPOSITION
Gina May Walter, INSZENIERUNG
Isabelle Kaiser, BÜHNENBILD
Cristina Lelli, KOSTÜME

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